This is tragic, he was so young. I got to know him fairly well in the couple of years that our lives crossed paths in Bangalore. He was a charming, caring, generous and intelligent friend. I missed him when he started to shun public contact a few years ago, I had no idea it had to do with a kidney transplant, that's a heavy burden to bear.
There's a lot I can speak of his spontaneity and generosity. Once, during an idle chat I remember mentioning only in passing about my favorite coffee shop in Pittsburgh. Some months later he happened to be traveling through Pittsburgh and got me a bag of my favorite coffee beans - I was amazed he remembered and bothered enough to lug coffee halfway across the world, we weren't even very close friends then. I will miss his company and grace, I know his family will miss him more. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk <s...@venkatmangudi.com> wrote: > Saw his obituary in Deccan Herald today. He was a close friend and my > classmate at St Joseph's. He became reclusive after a kidney transplant. I > last met him in 2006 just before I returnned to India. > > He was a lurker on Silk, in line with his reclusive behaviour. We called > Cobs - short for COBOL which was one of his favorite programming language. > He told us during college that he would go to the US and none of us believed > him. After all, BSc in India is only a three year course and you needed 4 > yrs after K-12 to get there. He did go there right after BSc proving all of > us wrong. I know I'm ranting. So I'll stop now. I miss him. > > --Venkat
